( February 10, 2009 )

Time enough, and solder

Spare Time Gizmos uses his, wisely. We are particularly intrigued by the COSMAC ELF 2000 and the SBC6120 — both machines the we, sadly, will probably never build.

( February 2, 2009 )

8bits of cheap computing

z80.info is the home of all-things Z80-related.

You know, the Zilog chip behind the CP/M machines, GameBoy, and others. Ah, the mid 1970s, when so many things were possible! Nowadays, all we have to look forward to is the degradation of Moore’s law and multi-cores progressing towards the singularity. Nobody cares about undocumented opcodes anymore….

( December 4, 2008 )

A Pictorial History of PC Hardware

The boffins down at Royal Pingdom have done it again: a History of PC Hardware in Pictures.

I’m particularly fond of the bowling-ball trackball, and the first laptop - a GRiD Compass, shown on the Space Shuttle (?).

( August 13, 2008 )

Heathkit, come back, Heathkit!

The Heathkit Virtual Museum (review’d).

( June 23, 2008 )

But is it good ENOUGH?

Scott Beale takes us through the Consumer Reports test-photo archives.

( May 7, 2008 )

Certainly Interesting History

A, not just possibly as the host warns us, definitely interesting history of computing with just enough photos to whet our appetites.

( May 2, 2008 )

Life on the margins is always more interesting.

A review of Fringeware.

( November 25, 2007 )

Yesterday, the stars!

Dark Roasted Blend shows us the highways of space from some of the byways of the printed past.

( April 13, 2007 )

A Gallery of Televisions

Wired online gives us a Gallery of Televisions (and you thought the title would be mis-leading).

( April 13, 2007 )

Early Hand-held Electronic Games

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